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This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.

<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>

Paragraph one.

Paragraph two.

By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility

Text with <br />line break

Text with line break

Bolded

<b>Bolded</b>

Bolded

Italicized

<i>Italicized</i>

Italicized

Block quoted

<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>

Block quoted

Cited

<cite>Cited</cite>

Cited

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<code>Coded</code>

Coded

Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>

First item

Second item

Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>

First item

Second item

Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.

If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

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Quoted content can be placed between [quote] tags in order to
be displayed as an indented quote. Every [quote] tag must have a
corresponding [/quote] tag. For example:

[quote]This is a simple quote.[/quote]

is displayed as:

Quote:

This is a simple quote.

Additionally, there is an optional attribute which allows quotes to
specify the original author.

[quote=Mr. Drupal]This is a quote with an attribution line.[/quote]

is displayed as:

Mr. Drupal wrote:

This is a quote with an attribution line.

Finally, multiple [quote] tags can be nested within one another. Just
remember that every [quote] tag must have a corresponding
[/quote] tag.

[quote]I think she says it best...
[quote=Ms. Quotation]This is a quote nested within another quote.[/quote]
but you can't argue with
[quote=Ms. Reply]The more quotes, the merrier.
Just don't get too carried away.[/quote]
And I have nothing more to say.[/quote]

is displayed as:

Quote:

I think she says it best...

Ms. Quotation wrote:

This is a quote nested within another quote.

but you can't argue with

Ms. Reply wrote:

The more quotes, the merrier.
Just don't get too carried away.

And I have nothing more to say.

Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.

This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.

<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>

Paragraph one.

Paragraph two.

By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility

Text with <br />line break

Text with line break

Italicized

<i>Italicized</i>

Italicized

Bolded

<b>Bolded</b>

Bolded

Cited

<cite>Cited</cite>

Cited

Coded text used to show programming source code

<code>Coded</code>

Coded

Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>

First item

Second item

Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>

First item

Second item

Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.

If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

Character Description

You Type

You Get

Ampersand

&amp;

&

Greater than

&gt;

>

Less than

&lt;

<

Quotation mark

&quot;

"

Quoted content can be placed between [quote] tags in order to
be displayed as an indented quote. Every [quote] tag must have a
corresponding [/quote] tag. For example:

[quote]This is a simple quote.[/quote]

is displayed as:

Quote:

This is a simple quote.

Additionally, there is an optional attribute which allows quotes to
specify the original author.

[quote=Mr. Drupal]This is a quote with an attribution line.[/quote]

is displayed as:

Mr. Drupal wrote:

This is a quote with an attribution line.

Finally, multiple [quote] tags can be nested within one another. Just
remember that every [quote] tag must have a corresponding
[/quote] tag.

[quote]I think she says it best...
[quote=Ms. Quotation]This is a quote nested within another quote.[/quote]
but you can't argue with
[quote=Ms. Reply]The more quotes, the merrier.
Just don't get too carried away.[/quote]
And I have nothing more to say.[/quote]

is displayed as:

Quote:

I think she says it best...

Ms. Quotation wrote:

This is a quote nested within another quote.

but you can't argue with

Ms. Reply wrote:

The more quotes, the merrier.
Just don't get too carried away.

And I have nothing more to say.

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